Board: Message Boards > Topics > Crime (old west, outlaws, prisoners, police, etc.) > Outlaws (Old West) URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/topics.crime.outlaws/63.1.1/mb.ashx Subject: Re: Outlaws of the Old West Page 1. Author: dsegelquist Date: 24 December 2003 Classification: Query Surnames:
This is all I have on him. In 1894 accompanied by Buss Luckey, Tom Root, Bill Smith, and a couple others, held up a Missouri Pacific train near Muskogee in the Cherokee Nation having been told that $60,000 was in the express car. The gang was driven off when Deputy U.S. Marshal "Bud" Ledbetter and three deputies opened fire from within the express car. A shot up Texas Jack slithered back into Arkansas where he was later arrested. Texas Jack was paroled in 1897 having seen the light preaching a warning for folks not to follow his example. He later appeared in a show called " Texas Jack, Train Robber," and sold Seventy Thousand copies of " The Live of Texas Jack." Nathaniel Reed, AkA. Texas Jack died in 1950 in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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